Huldenberg No. 1

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Scene Description: Inscription: "1621"

Image Source: digital photograph 2019 by Jean-Pierre Van Binnebeek [https://www.bloggen.be/huldenberg/archief.php?ID=3186459] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 2019 by Jean-Pierre Van Binnebeek [https://www.bloggen.be/huldenberg/archief.php?ID=3186459] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Luchtfoto van het centrum van Huldenberg, België. Rechts de Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk"

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Interior of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Huldenberg, Belgium:

Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2014 by Wouter Hagens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huldenberg,_Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk_interior_A.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Historische doopvont in de O.-L.-Vrouwekerk van Huldenberg. De doopvont die in de O.-L.-Vrouwekerk van Huldenberg staat, is bijna 4 eeuwen oud. Het jaartal 1621 is duidelijk zichtbaar. Ze heeft een achthoekige vorm en staat al enkele jaren in de viering."

Image Source: digital photograph 2019 by Jean-Pierre Van Binnebeek [https://www.bloggen.be/huldenberg/archief.php?ID=3186459] [accessed 19 May 2022]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1977 B&W photograph [cliché M098913] by KIK [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/37978] [accessed 19 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23972FUL

Church/Chapel: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk van Huldenberg

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Sint-Rochusstraat 1, 3040 Huldenberg, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 486 32 41 38

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off local road N253 [aka R. Borremansstraat], E of highway A4/E411, 5 km NE of Overijse, 15-20 km ESE of Brussels city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end [cf. FontNotes]

Date: 1621

Century and Period: 17th century(early), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: original Romanesque church; modified 13th-14thC, 15th, 18th and 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [ttp://balat.kikirpa.be/object/37978] [accessed 19 May 2022] as a baptismal font of stone dated between 1601 and 1700 [NB: this source does not mention the inscription]. Noted and illustrated by Jean-Pierre Van Binnebeek [https://www.bloggen.be/huldenberg/archief.php?ID=3186459] [accessed 19 May 2022]: the font, inscribed with the date '1621' was a gift of Jean Charles de Hemricourt, Lord of Huldenberg, and his wife Marie Jammaert [NB: the then priest of this church was Jan Jammaert, a relative of the donor]. TheHemricourt-Jammaert donated to the church also a holy-water stoup decorated with their arm [cf. BSI entry for Huldenberg No. 2]. The above source mentions that the font was moved to the front relatively recently [="In Huldenberg werd de doopvont enkele decennia geleden vooraan, onder de viering geplaatst"]. The font, made of dark-gray limestone, consists of an octagonal basin with moulded sides and a rounded underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base and a splaying moulded lower base; the inscription '1621' is carved/incised on the upper rim of the basin; the anagram Chi-Rho is carved/incised on the lower base/plinth; also on the upper rim of the basin, at opposite sides, are two metal staples from an old cover, but there is no cover present now. The outer surfaces of the font have been buffed to a shiny finish, a common practice with this type of limestone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.789967, 4.583922

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 23.88″ N, 4° 35′ 2.12″ E

UTM: 31U 611641 5627665

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: 1) upper rim of the basin 2) lower base/plinth

Inscription Text: 1) "1621" 2) [Chi-Rho anagram]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]